Album Notes

Celebrity Chimp is proud to present its debut EP, Celebrity is the New Royalty. This 5 track EP is released by Green Pea Productions.
The recording was made at the renowned Sawmills Studios in Cornwall in November 2008, a little under 11 months after the band was founded. Celebrity Chimp was originally a banjo and drums duo. Andy McKay, composer on Kris Drever’s Grammy nominated album Black Water and Tom Smith, Manchester drumming ace, are Celebrity Chimp. The pair played the open mics of the London music scene relentlessly until they found their spiritual home at the Hobgoblin on White Lion St, N1. They now take up residency monthly to delight a growing crowd of pink dancing ‘Chimps’, where Derek and Clive-esque verbal sniping comes to intersperse and tangle with the tunes.
Always at the heart of Celebrity Chimp is a desire to write great melodies, the kind that stay in your head all week. Underpinning these are Andy’s boundary breaking banjo parts and Tom’s ear-defying drums, all set against driving bass.
Please enjoy listening to the tracks; we look forward to your reviews, thoughts and verdicts with all the anticipation you can imagine from a new band in its first commercial venture.